Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-26
STATE NEWS.

Mrs Sylvia Gibbs Of Barnard celebrated
her Tooth birthday Aug. 10.
Gov Ormsbee has appointed Hon. VIM
Chaplin Of Middlesex member Of the board
of agriculture in place Of the late Judge
Henry Lane Mr. Chaplin is now member
Of the Senate from Washington county, and
was an earnest supporter Of the board of
agriculture in the last legislature
Mr.. Moody has accepted the invitation of
the churches Of Woodstock 70 preach there
three days, beginning Sept 2, and the peo-
pie Of the town and vicinity are preparing
for a revival The evangelist will be the
guest of Hon. Fred'k Billings.
Frank Towne Of Woodford attempted sui
eide at Bennington Friday evening by cut
ting his throat with piece Of glass. The
wound bled until Towne fell from weakness
into pile Of sawdust, which staanched the
blood, and he will recover.
The Central Vermont road has just closed
contract for bridge across the Winooski,
between Williston and Richmond at a cost
Of $37, 800 The bridge will be 600 feet
long, and is TO be completed in December.
Gov Ormsbee will attend the Franklin
county fair, Sept. g
The e. & T. Fairbanks scale company
In 1885 it sold at S511. The Boston Com
mercial Bulletin says the Boston stockhod-
ers are hostile TO the Vermont management,
which has paid no dividends for IL months
The concern was never doing larger bust
ness than at the present time.
Hon. Frederick Billings has closed a con
tract for an iron bridge TO replace the Gov
cred wood bridge over the branch near the
fair ground at Woodstock, and it is TO be in
place the first Of October. The bridge will
cost nearly 5000, and is present from Mr..
Billings TO the town.
1t is said that pickpockets piled their
trade TO the extent of about $1,000 at Ben
nngton last week.
The Rutland base ball association finds
itself in debt about $500 after having ex.
pended S2j00 on the games this season.
At Corinth recently, while pitching hay
Herbert Wilson got the head of a spear Of
grass into his throat He was obliged :,
go to Hanover to have it removed, and has
since been in a critical condition, his throat
being badly swollen.
The Vermont Mutual fire insurance com
pany's losses for the year ending August
were Sl66, S3S.77, and a 81 per cent assess
ment is required 10 pay them, against
1 ptl N'hb unoohnAhthb ihhb lthis
While Eldn Brown of Worcester, H. f
Cofrin and Fred L. Gray of Montpelier
painters, were at work on Goddard semina
ry at Barre, yesterday, the staging CAV,
way and Brown and Coffrin fell IS feet :,
the ground Brown was unconscious wher
picked up, and died soon after Coffrin'
ankles were seriously injured and his hand
badly lacerated and otherwise bruised
Gray sprang for the ropes when the staging
fell and hung until rescued.
The st. Johnsbury Caledonian tells thi
story of Bradford farmer and the catchy
hay weather: "He began haying a littl'
late and hauled in only two loads when tn
rains came. The last load he left on tn
cart. When the rains let up so he coul
get in more hay, and he went TO pitch OF
the load which had stood on the barn floor
he found that one of his hens had laid
nest of eggs on the load and Matched out
brood Of chickens. This man has given nj
haying and is now raising chickens for tn
White Mountain hotels